Lecture/Demonstrations

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Learning from Suzuki: Piano Teaching Ideas
Enjoy your teaching more - help your pupils play better 

My lecture/demonstrations offer music teachers a chance to see some of the ideas of the Suzuki method in action, and to hear how children (as well as family and teacher) benefit from this approach.

​The talk covers all aspects of Suzuki teaching:
  • VERY YOUNG PUPILS - such an eagerness to learn!
  • INVOLVING PARENTS - their interest motivates the child
  • BUILDING A COMMUNITY - families become a supportive network
  • LESSONS - working with child AND parent
  • LISTENING - provides a musical framework and aural repertoire
  • PRACTISING - keeping up enthusiasm
  • PERFORMING - right from the start
including ideas you might like to build into your lessons:
  • GROUP WORK - fun with games
  • ENSEMBLE WORK - doubling up in duets and trios
  • OBSERVING - other pupils’ lessons
  • DEVELOPING MEMORY - playing by ear
  • BUILDING REPERTOIRE - favourite pieces
  • THEORY AND AURAL - the early stages
  • SIGHT-READING - duets with teacher
  • SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS - introducing variety
Click here for further Piano Teaching Ideas given at demonstration. 

  • Birmingham 1999
  • Harrogate 2000
  • Southend-on-Sea 2001
  • High Wycombe 2002
  • Nottingham 2002
  • West London 2003
  • Northern Ireland 2003
  • Royal Academy of Music, London 2005
  • Cambridgeshire 2006
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Group lesson ideas
  • Buckinghamshire 2007
  • London 2007
  • Essex 2007
  • Nottinghamshire 2008
Suzuki workshops
  • Barcelona 2007
  • Hampshire 2007
  • Cardona 2012
  • Kent 2013
Teacher trainingSuccessful Practising
  • Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London 2011
  • Salisbury 2013
  • Guernsey 2013
Masterclasses
  • Guernsey 2013
Suzuki Sounds: Suzuki principles, technique and practice applied to traditional teaching
  • EPTA UK One Day Conference, Bolton 2014
  • Cambridge 2015
  • Derby 2015

​Comment from teacher attending demo in High Wycombe 
“BEST EPTA EVENT EVER”